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Maximus - FIRMWARE TOOLBOX V4.5 - BETTER BENQ SUPPORT
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MAIN NOTE:
THIS TOOL DOES NOT MAKE YOUR VAD6038 DRIVES RUN BACKUPS ON ANY WAY, THERE IS NO
RELEASED IXTREME NOR XTREME FIRMWARES FOR VAD6038.
THIS TOOL NEITHER ALLOW DIRECT READING/FLASHING OF THE VAD6038 FIRMWARE
YOU STILL NEED DUMP THE FIRMWARE WITH DOSFLASH Tools or with external programmer.
Special thanks to Modfreaks who send me a lot of Retail VAD6038 Dumps to test.
If you also want to contribute to make better toolbox send any new firmware to:
carranzafp@hotmail.com make sure is a 360 drive's firmware that is not currently
supported by toolbox (Unsupported BRAND, Unsupported ROM VERSION, etc).
WHATS NEW ON V4.50:
- FIXED: Properly support Handling of VAD6038 Firmwares (see notes).
- FIXED: Previously Hitachi spoofed drives were not visible on toolbox anymore
now you can see it and unspoof it or re-spoof them
- FIXED: Several other bugs
Release Notes:
The VAD6038 firmwares are tricky, the KEY could be placed on too many places, and
the code locations could vary a lot between same ROM drives. (Like on Hitachi 78/79
drives but on VAD6038 there are a lot o of posibilities)
This Toolbox support the 2 retail VAD6038 firmware versions known till now.
(62430C and 64930C). You can now:
- Read / Extract Keys
- Spoof Samsung/Hitachi drive as Benq
- Spoof Benq drive as Hitachi/Samsung
WHAT IS IT ?
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A graphical tool to handle several common dvd-drive firmware
tasks. This is the better tool you will find.
You can copy-paste the keys from one firmware to another not
matter if they are different vendor (samsung / hitachi / BENQ)
and not matter the version of the FW
Allows SMART PATCH for rolling code firmwares (Hitachi 0078/0079) and
also Direct Flash on all drives, even the nasty 78/79 drives.
RAWDUMP does not work fine with SIL chipsets yet, be aware of use
the validate checksum feature to avoid bad dumps and bricks. We
will be working on SIL chipsets later.
The flasher/restore appears to be rock solid now, also very easy
to understand, so this could be the base to flash future firmware
releases, even on the 78
FEATURES:
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- Direct Dump and Direct Flash over all versions of GDR3120L drives
even the 0078 FK drives. For 79 FK you will need aditional device
attached to the drive.
- Allow copy-paste of the keys between firmare not matter if
they are crypted or not or if they are different vendor or
even better, not matter which version of Fw (46,47,59,78 etc)
- Do common firmware tasks with a mouse click
- Supports Samsung and Hitachi firmwares All Versions
- Shows Vendor, ROM version and also if its CRYPTED or NOT
- Allow crypt or decrypt the files
- Shows the 16 byte Keys not matter if the file is Crypted
- Allows adding of TAGS to a KEY like Owner, Serial No, Date.
(Dont worry, the tags are not saved onto firmware file)
- Fully Integrated with Windows Context Menu (like winrar)
- Fully Supports 512 KB firmwares (2 banks)
SPONSORSHIP DONATION:
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N/A, if you like to support our research go to
http://www.maximusgames.net/79passkeyinfo.php
and purchase our hardware
INSTALLATION:
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- Unzip contents on the folder you like
- Open application and go to Options->Enable Windows Context Menu
- Close application
HOW TO USE:
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- READ THE ATTACHED FILE LABELED TUTORIALS.TXT
- To open a file you can just on Windows Explorer do Right Click and
choose "Open with Firmware Toolbox", or you can first launch the
application and do File-Open menu or simply drag a file from your
browser to the application.
- To encrypt or decrypt a file just open it as above and click the
button encrypt or decrypt.
- To replace a key just type it or copy-paste it into the key
textbox and click on "Replace Key"
- To set or replace Tag Data just type it into the Tag Data Section
"Save Tag Data". This Tag Data will be show every time you open
a file that have the same key. Useful to identify an Owner's Key
CHANGE LOG
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V4.00:
WHATS NEW ON V4.00:
- Added: Smart Hack Patcher now implements ixtreme 1.2 (thanks to c4e)
- Added: Now Supports 100% BENQ Firmwares (spoof, key changing, etc)
- Added: Option to Restore Original Firmwares based on any dump you have
- Corrected: Several other bugs
- Added: OCX's included on the release
(there are available on Microsoft site anyway)
v3.1:
WHATS NEW ON V3.1b:
- Added: Hitachi Xtreme 1.7 (Disc Jitter Fix by "c4eva")
- Added: Smart Hack Patcher now works for all Production Drives
V40 thru v79
- Added: Correctly show and handle of keys for Hit79 drives
- Corrected: Bug displaying Samsung FW as spoofed (display error)
- Corrected: Several other bugs
- Improved : Checksum checkup when dumping
- Added: OCX's included on the release
(REPACK, first v3.1b had corrupted archive)
(there are available on Microsoft site anyway)
V3.0:
WHATS NEW ON V3.0:
- Added: Direct Dumping of GDR3120L drives attached to PC.
Also features a new RAW memdump which is not fooled
by the stealth method on currently hacked drives.
Even can dump the nasty 78 drives all by software.
- Added: Direct Flashing of Keys, Spoof data and also
Direct flash of hacked firmwares over all hitachi
drive models attached to the PC. Even flash the
0078FK drives and newer (I hope). So forgot epoxy
removal for now.
see video tutorial here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSPmAAtMUk
- Added: Option to do a Smart hack on those "Rolling
Code" Firmwares like 78 and surely newer ones
- Added: Option to create multibank fw
- Added: Option to split multibank fw
- Added: Option to Spoof a firmware, you can spoof
a Hitachi XX version to a Hitachi YY version,
you can even spoof a hitachi Fw to report as
a samsung drive.
- Added: Option validate checksum, this will allow
detect proper and bad dumps before flashing
V2.0:
- Corrected: Lookup of keys on GDR-3120L V78 because
they dont have same location on all drives.
- Added: Show of the "hacker string" that identifies
hacked versions. (Samsung on FFE0, Hitachi
on 37F0) In case of 512 KB roms will only
show for bank 0
- Added: Option to quick view the key database
- Added: Bigger "Encrypt/Decrypt" button for those that
have not been using this save-time feature
WHAT IS NEXT ON FUTURE TOOLBOX VERSIONS ?:
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- Direct dump/flash of 79 drives
- Smart Hack Patcher configurable by script (avoid hard coded rules)
- Restore and Patch Wizards (for totally noobs)
KNOWN ISSUES:
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If the context menu is not shown when you right-click over a file just
open the application and do Options-Disable Windows Menu and then
Options-Enable Windows Context Menu. Also RAWDUMP does not work
fine with SIL chipsets, be aware of use the validate checksum feature
to avoid bad dumps and bricks
Some USB 2 SATA Adapters hangs at the moment of dumping, use a
Native Sata PC
BUGS, COMMENTS OR ADD FEATURES REQUEST:
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carranzafp@hotmail.com
THANKS TO
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